The Communication of Community Collaboration: When Rhetorical Visions Collide

Broom, Cheryl; Avanzino, Susan

doi:10.1080/01463373.2010.525701

Cited by 14 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 38 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Various studies utilizing SCT have employed FTA (e.g., Broom & Avanzino, 2010; Kyle, 2005; Putnam et al, 1991). In what follows, we explain a basic FTA framework (for a more detailed description, see Bormann et al, 1994).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By understanding the fantasy themes shared by a voluntary team, a deeper understanding of group cohesion and shared identity is possible. Broom and Avanzino’s (2010) FTA of a community coalition indicated that fantasy themes can lead to stronger group commitment, but can simultaneously impede the group’s sustainability and ability to recruit new members. In this case, a focus on the groups past successes created outgroups.…”

Section: Symbolic Convergence Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Extending Symbolic Convergence Theory

Zanin

Hoelscher

Kramer

2016

Small Group Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study addresses theoretical and contextual weaknesses of symbolic convergence theory (SCT) through a fantasy theme analysis of a life enrichment group (i.e., an all-female club rugby team). By using a variety of data sources, including group social media posts, participant observation, and interviews, the authors found two concurrent rhetorical visions present within this group: belong and triumph. These visions were created through member chaining of fantasy themes. In contrast with current assumptions of SCT, results indicated several tensions within concurrent fantasy themes and the two rhetorical visions. Theoretical and pragmatic implications for transferability and application of symbolic convergence and fantasy themes in other life enrichment groups are discussed.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Symbolic Convergence Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending Symbolic Convergence Theory

Zanin

Hoelscher

Kramer

2016

Small Group Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The turn toward retheorizing citizenship has come with calls for increased participation of people in public matters that directly or indirectly affect their lives, thereby redefining a "good citizen" as one who "participates as a grassroots actor" rather than one who dutifully adheres to a social contract without question (Kligler-Vilenchik, 2017, p. 1889. For this reason, over the years, citizenship studies have been accompanied by an increased scholarly interest in community related concepts (such as community empowerment, social capital, and social cohesion) that speak to the ways in which people are conditioned and inhibited by their social and political context that has a direct impact on the quality of their lives (Labonte and Laverack, 2001;Dutta-Bergman, 2004a;Broom and Avanzino, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Communication studies scholars have long analyzed community dynamics, although the conceptual lens used for analysis, over time, has varied-ranging from transmission or instrumental to constitutive or interpretive perspectives (Broom and Avanzino, 2010). From the transmission perspective, communication is used as a tool by established (or identified) communities to meet their particular needs and goals, be it health literacy or early childhood programs, and in this sense, communication is seen as a means to an end (Broom and Avanzino, 2010). On the other hand, scholars employing constitutive perspectives examine how communication creates and sustains communities, and, in that sense, the constitutive elements of communication become an end in themselves (Labonte and Laverack, 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, scholars employing constitutive perspectives examine how communication creates and sustains communities, and, in that sense, the constitutive elements of communication become an end in themselves (Labonte and Laverack, 2001). In this case, the focus is placed on the everyday communicative practices of people that constitute the very fabric of sociality, and the ways in which citizens negotiate matters of concern, develop a shared vision, generate innovative solutions to their shared problems, and in the process create interpretive communities (Burgess et al, 2006;Underwood and Frey, 2007;Broom and Avanzino, 2010;Kligler-Vilenchik, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Health Communication and Citizenship Among Sex Workers in Mysore, India: Beyond “Centers” and “Margins”

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the last couple of decades, there has been a significant turn toward critical and "culture-centered" approaches to health communication. Through the lens of critical ethnography, this paper aims to unsettle dominant Eurocentric and exclusionary notions of citizenship tied to a legislative and juridical framework of rights-as entitlements and obligations emanating from the "nation-state." Instead, by focusing on the communicative practices of members of Ashodaya Samithi, a sex worker collective responding to local forms of discrimination and violence and susceptibility to the HIV infection, we disrupt dichotomous notions of political "centers" and "margins" by emphasizing how local forms of resistance and transnational alliance building constitute complex socialities that enable sex workers to navigate risks, demand services, expand their rights and freedoms, while fulfilling individual and collective responsibilities. We argue that, in the "developing" world, emergent forms of citizenship are more likely to be found not in some concentrated center of cultural authority like the nation-state, or its ancillaries, but in more dispersed sites where postcolonial struggles may appear as uncivil, coarse, insurgent, impure, ambiguous, marginal, and thus threatening to more purified, populist portraits of nationhood redrawn by politicians and health officials. This paper highlights alternative voices often blocked by the dominant discourse, thereby potentially recentering health communication in marginalized spaces. By juxtaposing field data and theory, this paper also aims to demonstrate how to engage in critical health communication research with rigor and quality.

show abstract

Symbolic Convergence Theory

Olufowote

2017

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Symbolic convergence theory (SCT) is a communication centered theory that resonates with time‐tested organizational communication foci such as narratives and storytelling, shared and collective meanings, rhetoric, and the grapple with the relationship between little “d” and big “D” discourse. This entry on SCT contextualizes it in the broader history of communication studies, remembers its central ideas, explains its resonance with organizational communication studies, identifies organizational communication criticisms of SCT, discusses how organizational communication theories can improve SCT, examines how a reformulated SCT is influencing organizational communication studies, and considers future directions for SCT based works.

show abstract

The Communication of Community Collaboration: When Rhetorical Visions Collide

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Extending Symbolic Convergence Theory

Extending Symbolic Convergence Theory

Health Communication and Citizenship Among Sex Workers in Mysore, India: Beyond “Centers” and “Margins”

Symbolic Convergence Theory

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About